ཏི་ད་ལིང

Kurtöp

Etymology

Partly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-taj (“navel”), whence also Tibetan ལྟེ (lte), Dzongkha ལྟེཝ (ltew) and Mandarin 臍 / 脐 (qí). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪í.d̪ɐ.liŋ]

Noun

ཏི་ད་ལིང (tidaling)

1. navel
2. umbilical cord

References

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎^[1], page 109
• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 82